Subj : Busy Nodes? To : Janis Kracht From : Jeff Smith Date : Sun Apr 28 2019 12:32 am Hello Janis, > Is it from someone like Yandex that fills up your nodes? That started > happening here.. so I use this line to keep them off the bbs nodes: > iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp -m string --string "block-me.com" --algo kmp -j > REJECT > That is all one line, and of course you change "block-me.com" to the name of > the site that is nailing your system... works well here. Here a domain name doesn't show up, just an IPv4 address. I have started to add the IP's to block them. I was looking for a way to limit x connection attempts from the same IP address within x seconds. And decided to use the command line: iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 23 -i eth0 -m state --state NEW -m recent --update --seconds 10 --hitcount 3 -j DROP Which has seemed to help as my busy nodes issue isn't as bad as it was. At least BBBS looks to be freeing up the nodes quicker. Jeff --- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-4 * Origin: Fidoneet: The Ouija Board - Anoka, MN -bbs.ouijabrd.net (1:282/1031) .